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887: Total eclipse and other wonders / 888: Eye-to-eye with animals, 4/6/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Total eclipse and other wonders" - Millions of people are traveling to see the total solar eclipse. Meanwhile, the exact nature of the u...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:02
873: Luminous: What Can Psychedelics Teach Us About Dying? / 874: Traveling By Book, 2/17/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Luminous: What Can Psychedelics Teach Us About Dying?" - Could psychedelics change the way we approach death and dying? We'll explore th...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
019: Letting the tears flow: the science and culture of crying, 1/19/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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Humans are the only animal to produce emotional tears. Asking questions about this behavior can help us better understand how we live our lives.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
857: Cultivating Wonder / 858: The World Is A Laboratory, 12/23/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Cultivating Wonder" - Maybe there’s something missing in your life you can’t quite explain. It might be that you need to re-discover you...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
853: Off The Map / 854: Thinking With Animals, 12/9/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Off The Map" - Remember what maps were like when you were a kid? Well, Google Maps now makes finding everything from an obscure coffees...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Dream Sharing and Empathy
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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Does dream sharing increase empathy and insight? Today meet two English professors who say, "Yes it does!" The Science and Art of Dreaming is their...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:01
Constant Wonder - Book of Delights
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Poet Ross Gay on the small, sweet delights of life's daily walk with no fireworks or fanfare.

Bought by WLRH and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:54
  • Purchases: 2
Skin Deep
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Happy Halloween! Jess talks with UCLA librarian Megan Rosenbloom about the spooky science of uncovering what makes some old books extra rare.

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
AMOS 23-170: The Invisible World of Manuscripts, 8/25/2023
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
The Invisible World of Manuscripts

  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
Cultivating Wonder
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Wonder
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Maybe there’s something missing in your life you can’t quite explain. It might be that you need to re-discover your sense of wonder. We'll show you...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Capital Public Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
777: Cultivating Wonder / 778: Hope: Are We Really Doomed?, 3/18/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Cultivating Wonder" - Maybe there’s something missing in your life you can’t quite explain. It might be that you need to re-discover you...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
2023 Spring Fundraiser: Unconventional Healing / Predicting Success
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To The Best of Our Knowledge Fundraisers
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In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about better list...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KALW, WUFT, and KRCU Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:23:32
  • Purchases: 4
749: Astonishing African Futures / 750: Thinking With Animals, 12/10/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Astonishing African Futures" - The new Black Panther movie, "Wakanda Forever," is dominating the global box office. This hour, a litera...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
Part Four: Shapeshifting
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Kinship With The More-Than-Human World
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Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the world. What are they trying...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WFAE, KUHF, KSPB Pebble Beach, WHRV and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Part Three: When Mountains Are Gods
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Kinship With The More-Than-Human World
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Science tells us mountains are giant piles of rock, formed millions of years ago. But that's not all they are. This hour, we'll remember a time whe...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF, KSPB Pebble Beach, WHRV and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Part Two: Plants As Persons
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Kinship With The More-Than-Human World
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If plants are intelligent beings, how should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral universe? Should they have rights?

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF, KSPB Pebble Beach, WHRV and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
659: Our Time Of Mourning / 660: Hope: Where Does It Come From?, 1/29/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - Year three of the pandemic. Where should we go to mourn our losses? We'll look for answers from generations past...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
Edith Widder, BELOW THE EDGE OF DARKNESS & Sy Montgomery, TAMED & UNTAMED
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with deep sea explorer Edith Widder about Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir Of Exploring Light And Life In The Deep Sea. Then, we revis...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:39
The Write Question - Laura Kolbe
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Doctor and writer Laura Kolbe talks about her new collection of poems, "Little Pharma."

Bought by WETS, KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
623: Finding Meaning In Desperate Times / 624: Pick Your Poison, 9/25/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Finding Meaning In Desperate Times" - The pandemic isn't just a health crisis, it's an x-ray into our psyches. This hour, how COVID-19 i...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
593: The Resilient Brain / 594: Difficult Summer Reads, 6/12/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Resilient Brain" - In 1848, an explosion drove an iron rod through the skull of a railroad foreman. Find out how it changed science ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
Captivating Fictions and The Experimenting Animal
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is author Thalia Field and our show is about the way normative stories, whether told as fiction or science or religion or history, work t...

Bought by WCNY, RADIOLEX, and KWMR


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Author Andy Weir and Project Hail Mary
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Andy Weir's new science fiction novel sends an unlikely protagonist on a mission to save humanity from an interstellar threat., Credit: Ballantine
The author of The Martian introduces us to his terrific new novel and shares his thoughts about the current state of space exploration.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: May 05, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
545: Finding Meaning In Desperate Times / 546: Endings (In Four Novellas), 12/26/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Finding Meaning In Desperate Times" - The pandemic isn't just a health crisis, it's an x-ray into our psyches. This hour, how COVID-19 i...

  • Added: Dec 25, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
533: Solace Of Nature / 534: Is The Universe A Number?, 11/14/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Solace Of Nature" - Time to get outside. Despite all the changes, there are still signs of renewal everywhere. We'll show you where to l...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58